Miss

Livers
2nd Grade News
May 5, 2017
Notes/Reminders Reading Workshop: *Summative Assessment
Next week we will begin our final reading unit: Poetry. This unit
May 10th- PLC 1:30 Dismissal will help readers learn and apply specific reading skills and
strategies that will help understand the meaning of poems. We
May 12th- Registration Deadline will look at how poems are organized into lines and/or stanzas
and can have varied layouts that affect the meaning and the
May 17th- Hot Dog Day sound of a poem.

May 24th- PLC 1:30 Dismissal
Mentor Texts: dear bird and dear turtle from dear world
May 25th-Music Concert Summer, August Heat, and Boardwalk in Winter from
sharing the seasons, dear car and dear stars from dear
world
Vocabulary Poem about tug-of-war (Spring) from Guyku

conflict, problem, solve/solution, Writers Workshop: Unit-Folktales, Fables, & Fairy Tales
point of the tale, Students will choose an idea from their notebook to develop
descriptive/description, details, into a published tale. They will spend the week drafting their
tales. We will focus on how to begin a story, events that make
diverse cultures, humor,
up the middle, and the best type of ending for their draft.
illustrator/illustrations
Mentor Texts: The Boy of the 3-Year Nap, It Could Always Be
Worse, Anansi Goes Fishing, The Old Man & His Door

Everyday Math: Unit 9 Equal Shares and Whole Number

Operations. Students will practice measuring lengths to the
nearest half-inch. They will write multidigit numbers in
expanded form and compare them. * Please continue to
practice IXL and flashcards at home.
The students have
Social Studies: Chapter 14: What Do Communities Share?
been counting
down 19 more Science: *Test Wed. 5/10 Chapter 12: Sound

days left of school!

Have a great

weekend!
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